I was reading an article today about the Shroud of Turin, and in telling the tale of Jesus being arrested the author mentions that there was an actual wanted poster for him put out by the Romans, which I had never heard about. Apparently the poster describes Jesus as being 4'6" tall, bald-headed and hump-backed - obviously, not what we wanna think of when we think of JC; we are programmed by now to think of him as being a taller, more flowing version of Sonny Crockett who can dunk a basketball and catch bullets with his teeth. So I can see why nobody would be in a rush to pass that info on.
But then the author uber-casually mentions that the actual poster is still around! WTF???!! As I said I can understand minimizing the image for the religious, but how can I have NEVER even heard of something which I would think would be an amazing historical artifact? Where is this thing - I've spent 30 minutes searching online and have come up with nothing. Anyone else know anything about this? How is this not more generally known? Grrr.
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I've read and watched a lot about the Shroud and about historical Jesus, but I have never heard about the Wanted poster either. Cool. I will do some searching too.
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